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It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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June 03, 2026
Former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his criminal fraud conviction and nearly 13-year prison sentence, arguing that the Ninth Circuit used the wrong review doctrine in rejecting his argument that prosecutors had failed to correct allegedly false testimony given by investor victims.
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June 03, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a Brazilian man's convictions in Washington state for having multiple guns, ammunition and an unregistered silencer, rejecting his argument that silencers are protected "arms" under the Second Amendment.
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June 03, 2026
A man sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a child under 12 was not entitled to a 12-person jury, a Florida state appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding that since he was not facing the death penalty, his case was not a capital case, nor were his constitutional rights violated.
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June 03, 2026
The U.S. Air Force isn't obligated to compensate a subcontractor for over $8 million in unpaid expenses the company said it incurred because of the prime contractor's bankruptcy, the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday, examining the parties' payment arrangement.
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June 03, 2026
A Georgia appeals court considered Wednesday whether a freight company and one of its drivers' inability to cross-examine a former defendant turned key witness justified overturning the $47 million verdict against them in a case brought by a woman whose husband was killed in a 2017 crash.
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June 03, 2026
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday reversed an order clearing a health company owner of liability in a deceptive business practices case, saying the lower court wrongly found prosecutors hadn't met their burden of proof despite evidence at trial showing misconduct involving fraud.
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June 03, 2026
The Georgia Supreme Court is giving a man accused of malice murder a second chance at having his conviction overturned after they found he was unfairly denied an opportunity to argue that he was denied his right to a speedy trial.
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June 03, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday temporarily suspended two California immigration attorneys from practicing before the appellate court for filing briefs in a deportation relief case containing artificial intelligence-generated hallucinations, finding no excuse for their "extraordinary confession" of not vetting citations used by unlicensed brief writers.
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June 03, 2026
A Pennsylvania appellate court on Wednesday vacated a state agency order that assigned responsibility for inspecting and maintaining the drainage system on a Philadelphia railroad bridge to Consolidated Rail Corp., rejecting an interpretation that relied on the omission of a comma in a 60-year-old regulatory directive.
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June 03, 2026
A federal district court judge has stayed a jurisdictional challenge against two Oklahoma district attorneys by the federal government and three tribal nations until another dispute with a Tulsa County prosecutor is resolved in the Tenth Circuit, saying both parties' arguments weighed strongly in favor of the pause.
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June 03, 2026
Counsel for the family of the late designer George Nelson told a Sixth Circuit panel Wednesday that a lower court decision awarding intellectual property rights for his iconic bubble lamp to furniture company MillerKnoll was based on a faulty interpretation of a 2015 contract amendment and should be overturned.
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June 03, 2026
Public-sector employers in Florida don't have to let people observe arbitration hearings in labor-management disputes, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a trial court's finding that state law requires these hearings to be open to the public.
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June 03, 2026
Georgia can move forward with the executions of a number of incarcerated people on death row, with the state's highest court finding it made good on an agreement to pause the practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 03, 2026
A Michigan appeals panel upheld the dismissal of lawsuits challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's rules for candidate filing affidavits, ruling that the state had the authority to set deadlines and procedures for handling challenges to those filings.
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June 03, 2026
Several technology industry groups threw their support behind Apple Inc. on Wednesday, telling the U.S. Supreme Court an injunction issued in a case brought by Epic Games Inc. tries to alter the service Apple provides to millions of developers based on complaints from a single company.
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June 03, 2026
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday refused to revive a former greyhound track's challenge to a law allowing the state to revoke pari-mutuel wagering permits from inactive businesses, rejecting the dog track's arguments that the law is unconstitutional.
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June 03, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a decision finding that ChampionX Corp. lacked the contractual standing to sue insurers for coverage of a $40 million oil spill lawsuit involving one of its subsidiaries, but gave the company a chance to add parties to its complaint in the lower court.
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June 03, 2026
Two legal nonprofits urged the California Supreme Court to issue an order entitling low-income civil litigants to electronic recording if a live court reporter is not available, saying at a hearing Wednesday that a court reporter shortage in the Golden State has created a "crisis."
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June 03, 2026
Former prominent conservative litigator L. Lin Wood is urging the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn a roughly $11 million award that an Atlanta jury determined he owes his ex-law partners relating to the 2020 breakup of their firm.
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June 03, 2026
The international Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld $177,440 in fines imposed by FIFA's Disciplinary Commission against the Mexican Football Federation, saying it's the correct sanction after fans chanted a homophobic slur during several soccer games in 2024.
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June 03, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday fielded dueling arguments from OXEA Corp. and insurance policy underwriters on whether the chemical giant is entitled to $8 million in coverage under an environmental pollution policy to cover part of a settlement reached with a contractor's employee who was exposed to carbon monoxide.
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June 03, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit reopened a lawsuit alleging that a Florida city police officer was harassed and demoted because he took time off for military service, holding that the trial court needed to take a closer look at whether the back pay he received was enough to remedy the situation.
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June 03, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's plan to withdraw corporate climate disclosure regulations could see the commission back in court two years after it was sued for adopting those same regulations, with investor advocates questioning the legality of the agency's change of direction.
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June 03, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive claims across a pair of Amsted Rail Co. Inc. patents covering a way of monitoring the performance of railcars, backing Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that the claims were invalid.
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June 03, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday examined whether a $450,000 punitive damages award in a farmworker trafficking case can stand when the jury awarded only economic damages, and whether a trial judge properly handled an unusual incident involving a spectator whose presence allegedly affected a plaintiff's testimony.